The Return of Olympus: Zeus on Surviving, Evolving, and Scaling OHM

Zeus is the Founder of Olympus.

In this episode, the anonymous DeFi founder Zeus does his first podcast appearance in 4 years to share how Olympus survived the bear market, restructured its vision, and is now scaling the programmatic money OHM with new products like Cooler Loans V2 and a $275M treasury.

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Timestamps

0:00 - Intro
5:27 - The founding of Olympus
12:29 - Success came so much faster than expected
21:27 - Why Olympus was able to scale when every fork failed
29:59 - Surviving the bear market
38:52 - Sponsor break
39:33 - Why Zeus took a break
44:22 - What is Range Bound Stability (RBS)?
55:01 - Why they disabled RBS?
59:42 - Cooler Loans and OHM treasury strategies
1:21:01 - Sponsor break
1:22:39 - How Olympus compares to the Saylor BTC trade
1:43:06 - Olympus’s investment in Berachain
1:51:27 - Closing

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🔗 Guest Links 🔗

► Olympus website: https://www.olympusdao.finance/
► Olympus on X: https://x.com/OlympusDAO
► Zeus on X: https://x.com/ohmzeus

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